Re-scheduling for the Wish...please help my pea brain figure this out.

[mmackeymouse]

I work in accounting/numbers, so this shouldn't be so difficult, but I am having trouble figuring out the logistics of what we need to do.

We currently have the 5 night Merrytime Double Dip scheduled for November, which we used FCC from 2020 for. The booking is via Costco. Not paid off just yet. Unfortunately, it seems like we will be cancelling this cruise, as the Delta variant thing doesn't seem to be getting better/going away. We aren't going to cancel anything just yet...going to see how it plays out. With our cruise being amongst the more popular/ highly booked ones, we are waiting it out to see if they offer any incentives for people to cancel.

Now, several weeks ago, we booked a September 2022 sailing on the Wish, using gift cards as the down payment. As a backup plan, essentially. Unfortunately, with it being a backup plan, we really didn't expect it would happen, and it kind of skipped our minds, and we forgot to transfer the cruise to Dreams/Costco. I really hate missing out on free money from using a travel agent, but in order to cancel the Sept 2022 and book a new one with a TA, the same cruise/same category is like $500 more. So....I think we might be stuck.

As of right now, I believe the FCC runs to 9/30/22, so if we cancel our Double Dip, will that FCC roll over to our Sept Wish cruise? Or do we lose it? Also, does anyone know with the UK sailings, if they were able to combine the FCC and the 50% off deal (not that I am expecting 50% off, but whatever offer there may be)?

I'm also wondering if we go through Costco, and work it as a "re-schedule" instead of a cancel+new booking, if we can keep our Costco incentives from the Double Dip. Not even sure if that's possible, considering the Wish cruise is already made. And so then we are probably back to having to cancel and book at the higher price.

If we have to cancel through Costco, will the money we've paid thus far plus the FCC revert to our account, and then we could call Disney to apply those funds to the Wish cruise? In my brain, I am feeling this is the way it works, or should work, but...I'm a bit backwards right now. I expect that there should be quite a bit overage going from the 5 night double dip to the Wish cruise. Would we be able to refund our gift cards used for the down payment immediately, or would it become an OBC, and we'd have to do a refund at the end (HAHAHA, as if there will be a refund)

Sorry for all of the questions....but before we go forward on any further cancellations, I want to make sure all our ducks are in a row.

 

[sethschroeder]

I doubt Disney offers any incentives to cancel. There absolutely will be lots of people cancelling for various reasons.

Also which specific cruise are you on? I can book a double dip right now for 5 nights if I wanted in November.

Also even if it's booked doesn't mean it's full Disney could have cut off booking a while ago. As far as the rest no clue call your travel agent and call Disney directly would be my suggestion to see what they say can be done.

 

[mmackeymouse]

Yes, that's the one. But...if you recall, what happened with the UK thing, is the UK government lowered the capacity limit after bookings were made. So, they were sort of in a position to get cancellations happening and quick.

So, while I don't necessarily expect any sort of cancellation incentives, and bookings may be available NOW...with the Delta variant, things are a really fluid situation. And, if there is some sort of external entity, whether CDC or whatever, that puts a hard capacity limit, number or % into place, it's a possibility we'll see $250 OBC or 30% off or something.

 

[rere101399]

Hi, I don’t have answers to your questions. But wanted to stop by to say that we’re also on the Fantasy double dip on 11/6. We made the decision to move forward and pay in full today so we can book silver activities at midnight. We also were booked through Costco and I wanted to add Disney insurance before paying in full so I had to call Costco today. Prepare yourself for long waits! I was on hold with Costco travel for 57 minutes, then together the Costco guy and I were on hold with Disney for 40 minutes. Right when Disney was adding the insurance, the Costco travel guy had his computer crash and eventually had to end the call and call me back about 10 minutes later. In the end we got it handled but it was over 2 hours, and the Costco guy was very nice but said they’d been experiencing a lot of phone system problems and computer problems…just so you’re prepared! Also, if you happen to have Palo booked and cancel anytime after today, I’d love to coordinate a drop/pickup of your Palo reservation

 

[mmackeymouse]

Hi, I don’t have answers to your questions. But wanted to stop by to say that we’re also on the Fantasy double dip on 11/6. We made the decision to move forward and pay in full today so we can book silver activities at midnight. We also were booked through Costco and I wanted to add Disney insurance before paying in full so I had to call Costco today. Prepare yourself for long waits! I was on hold with Costco travel for 57 minutes, then together the Costco guy and I were on hold with Disney for 40 minutes. Right when Disney was adding the insurance, the Costco travel guy had his computer crash and eventually had to end the call and call me back about 10 minutes later. In the end we got it handled but it was over 2 hours, and the Costco guy was very nice but said they’d been experiencing a lot of phone system problems and computer problems…just so you’re prepared! Also, if you happen to have Palo booked and cancel anytime after today, I’d love to coordinate a drop/pickup of your Palo reservation

Oh my, I wish. Palo has been long gone for a while. We decided we'd probably have to wait till we were on board and hope there were some openings.

I'm so, so, SO jealous of you. a Merrytime cruise, and a double dip have been on our bucket list for a while, so to have the two-fer in one package was kind of the dream cruise. If it were up to me, we'd be going. But, the rest of the family (and understandably so) are a little uneasy about it, not worried about safety so much as worried that a possible outbreak could cause us to miss ports or quarantined to cabins, what not.

I'm excited to try the Wish, but if I'm perfectly honest, there is a December 22 double dip that I have my eye on. Would lose out on the FCC and the price is more than we'd normally pay. But, missing out on the dream cruise this year is definitely a bummer.

 

[Calantha]

I believe the FCC runs to 9/30/22, so if we cancel our Double Dip, will that FCC roll over to our Sept Wish cruise?

So this isn't quite the same situation but close. I have FCC from an October 2020 cruise. That cruise was moved to October 2021. It is now September 2022 (because of the 30 September 2022 deadline). I have leftover FCC that I was able to retroactively apply to our June 2022 Alaska cruise (so they were fine with me splitting it) AND my dad had to cancel (it's complicated) and re-book and he kept his FCC.